Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
De Fox, eh berry cunnin, an eh nebber furgit ehself.
To what, where: eh berry cunnin
This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | compound |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cunnin | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cunnin | amod |
| 5 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cunnin | compound |
| 6 | cunnin | cunnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 furgit | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 furgit | det |
| 9 | eh | eh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 furgit | amod |
| 10 | nebber | nebber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 furgit | compound |
| 11 | furgit | furgit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cunnin | conj |
| 12 | ehself | ehself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 furgit | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cunnin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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